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The Nintendo Download: Zenonia Gets A Real Control Pad

Gamevil’s role-playing game Zenonia is an excellent iPhone title, its one significant flaw being the lack of a real directional pad. With the DSiWare release of Zenonia, that problem gets solved. While it might not be as pretty as its iPhone predecessor, the DSiWare version of Zenonia makes up for it with real physical controls.…

By Mike Fahey Published September 27, 2010

Nintendo Taking Care Of Metroid: Other M Bug

Metroid: Other M has a game-freezing bug. In Japan, Nintendo has a fix. It involves sending things on a truck. The bug has been causing players to get stuck in the Section 3 section of the game. Stuck as stuck and not able to get out. It’s a game-breaking bug. Some players are unable to…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2010

Remembering Cruis’n USA

Ah, Cruis’n USA. Such pretty graphics, such awful everything else. It probably won’t be remembered as a significant title by many of you, but for one guy, it was important enough to justify writing a comic about it. What I like about this is that I’d imagine many, if not most of you could remember…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2010

It’s Dangeous To Go Alone? There’s An App For That

By Shane Parker, as seen on Super Punch

By Luke Plunkett Published September 27, 2010

Report: German Paper Dates Nintendo 3DS

This week, Nintendo is slated to make the Nintendo 3DS’s release date public. German newspaper Bild claims to have the jump on the goods. According to Bild, the Nintendo 3DS will go on sale in Japan on November 11. It will then “probably” go on sale in Europe in spring 2011 and is priced at…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 27, 2010

Check Out Kirby’s Epic … Uh …

What happened to Kirby, indeed. I’d say that thing is an epic yard. Seen in an email Nintendo sent to gamers this morning. Thanks to reader Christian C.

By Owen Good Published September 25, 2010

Mario Creator Says Making Mario Games Is Easy, Rubik’s Cubes Hard

Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario, reflects on the past 25 years of his creation in a new interview with fellow creator Shigesato Itoi, explaining how creating Super Mario Bros. and the Mario games that followed was the “easy” way out. “When there are several possibilities, I choose the easy one,” Miyamoto explains to the…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 24, 2010

Mario’s Playground

Super Mario playground from the Wii Games: Summer 2010 summit earlier this month, as seen on PopCultureGeek’s Flickr stream

By Stephen Totilo Published September 24, 2010

Triple Miyamoto

A pair of artists recently drew and painted Donkey Kong daddy and Mario maker Shigeru Miyamoto. Why did the candy turn into creepy Kirby? Why did they make Miyamoto creepy? (Click the triptych to enlarge.) The photo on the left was included in a 2004 interview between Miyamoto and Next Level games, during the pre-Wii…

By Stephen Totilo Published September 24, 2010

Report: There Is A New Wii-Remote

And it is apparently called “Wii Remote Plus”. The box art for upcoming Wii title FlingSmash seems to be bundled with a new Wii Remote. The box notes, “Bonus Wii Remote Plus Inside!” The game is compatible with Wii MotionPlus, the motion add-on peripheral for the Wii Remote. The Wii MotionPlus was released in 2009…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 24, 2010

Japanese Nintendo Pitchman Leaves Showbiz

Takashi Okamura starred in one of the greatest Japanese ads Nintendo Co., Ltd. has ever created. The ad appeared back in late 2005 and early 2006 as part of Nintendo’s “Hot Mario” campaign. It starred Osaka comedians Okamura as Mario and his comedy partner Hiroyuki Yabe as Luigi. While the vast majority of Japanese commercials…

By Brian Ashcraft Published September 24, 2010

NES Head: ‘A Quasi-Self Portrait Of My Formative Years’

“1985” by Mike Mitchell, an accurate visual representation into the young mind of a Nintendo Entertainment System owner who knew nothing but the pack-in joys of Super Mario Bros., now 25 years old. Via SuperPunch

By Michael McWhertor Published September 23, 2010

Donkey Kong Country Pre-order Bonuses Are Bananas

Wii owners who have already earmarked funds for Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii may want to fork over some of that cash to GameStop, especially if they want to encase their Wii Remotes in banana pouches. GameStop is offering the Wii-owning banana fan something cute and clever with which to dress up their…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 23, 2010

Reviews

Swords Review: It Slices, It Dices, It Sucks

Of all the ways to play using motion-detecting video games, swordplay seems to offer the most potential for fun. The give and take of fencing and Kendo seem like easy rules to mimic in a video game and the slashing motion of using your sword to attack and block seem like the sort of big…

By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010

Taking a Hockey Stick to Wii Party

Earlier this week I received a Wii Party pinata in the mail, it was pretty clear what had to be done. Good thing Ash is reviewing this particular game.

By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010

The Game Menus Of The Future Will Be In 3D

We know games are going 3D, but did you ever stop to wonder what would happen to game menus? Scaleform are some of the development community’s unsung heroes, responsible for the user interfaces and menu systems for many of today’s biggest games. In this clip, they demonstrate how those menus will look runing in 3D,…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010

Happy 121st Birthday, Nintendo!

Irrational Games was founded in 1997. Lucasarts in 1982. Sega in 1940. Each of those three companies may feel like old-timers relative to their field, but they’ve got nothing on Nintendo, which todaycelebrates its 121st birthday Yes, it was on September 23, 1889 that Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a company that at the time specialised in…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 23, 2010

Professor Layton Covers Up New York Metro’s Sex Issue

The sharp-eyed bloggers over at Aggrogate noticed something amiss with today’s issue of freebie New York newspaper Metro. Instead of a sexy cover for the pub’s Sex Issue, the Metro was wrapped with a faux cover dedicated to the panic in London caused by puzzles. That’s right, Nintendo took over the New York paper with…

By Brian Crecente Published September 23, 2010

The Onion On Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary

Nintendo is celebrating the 25th birthday of Super Mario Bros. on the original NES in its own way, but the investigative reporters at The Onion offer piercing insight into series you won’t read anywhere else.

By Michael McWhertor Published September 22, 2010

Donkey Kong Country Returns Introduces Us To Rambi

Meet Rambi, the rideable, sleepy-eyed rhinoceros who doesn’t mind stepping on a few thorns in the name of giving Donkey Kong a ride in Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii. Frankly, Donkey Kong Country Returns looks so incredibly straightforward there’s not much more to add here, other than we hope that Miney the Mine…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 22, 2010